Quantum Investigations, University of Bristol, 22nd March 2025
Quantum Investigations, University of Bristol, 22nd March 2025
The Bristol Centre for Science and Philosophy is delighted to announce a workshop in the history and philosophy of science: Quantum Investigations, which will take place on 22nd March 2025. The workshop explores philosophical and historical questions in the foundations of quantum theory: from Bohr to Wheeler; from Complementarity to Mysticism; from Quantum Biology to the Physics of Information.
Further details are below and at the website at this link.
To register, please email: karim.thebault@bristol.ac.uk.
Venue
G2 Cotham House, University of Bristol,
29 Cotham Hill, Bristol BS6 6JL
Programme
22nd March 2025 09:30 – 17:30
09:30 – 10:15: Guido Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht): Better than Bohr? Grete Hermann’s Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
10:15 – 11:00: Ray Pedersen (Oxford) and Jer Steeger (Bristol): Complementarity as infringement
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
11:30 – 12:15: Noah Stemeroff (Bristol): Baptised Anti-Metaphysical? Pauli and Heisenberg’s Later Mysticism
12:15 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:45: Noemi Bolzonetti and Mor Lumbroso (Utrecht): The Eye as an Optical Instrument – Bohr, Physiology and the Gamma Ray Microscope
14:45 – 15:30: Margarida Hermida (Bristol & King’s College London): Philosophy of Quantum Biology
15:30 – 16:00: Coffee
16:00 – 16:45: Stefano Furlan (Utrecht): Beyond the End of Time – Prolegomena to ‘It from Bit’
16:45 – 17:30: Dean Rickles (Sydney): Why Your Cosmos Needs You: John Wheeler and the Physics of Information